All this is not to smear the life of "G.I. Joe Gliniewicz, whose staged homicide resulted in the useless man-hours of hundreds of officers in a manhunt that wasted thousands of taxpayer dollars and could have resulted in the slaying, assault or pointless charging and possibly (because we can't pretend these things don't ever happen, can we?) sentencing of innocent people.

This person could not have made a messier end for himself with a dozen years planning.

No, my point is that this particular death was used to try and smear the Black Lives Matter movement: when the best argument against indicting cops who slay in the line of duty is to let the investigation happen and the facts present themselves over time without a rush to judgment, it was astonishing to see how quickly a rush to judgment against a whole movement of citizens occurred by police-backers before a full investigation let the facts present themselves.

Trust me, I don't entirely know what to make out of all of that. It kind of reminds me of Charles Stuart or Susan Smith. It's amazing how the image of the violent POC hangs out there waiting for white people to blame their grotesqueries on.

In any case, I think the strange unmade martyrdom of GI Joe Gliniewicz should give us all a little pause about how quickly we reach to politicize deaths. For instance, there's something I can't put my finger on about the Goforth murder that tells me this isn't anything to do with BLM. I'd kindly like to suggest that people who want to demagogue about what lives matter and when go take a long walk off a short pier. And once that cold refreshing splash wakes you the hell up, realize that yes, duh, of course, all lives matter. But every case is complex but not all cases are unique. And yes, racism is a real damn thing. And not all cops are simon-pure and halo-ready.